OBJECTIVE:

I am seeking a position of Senior COBOL Programmer Analyst, and or Quality Assurance Tester,

CAREER SUMMARY:

15 years in the field of IT/IS, System Development Full Life Cycle, System Software Analysis of Application Development, Planning, Design, Coding, Testing, Flowcharting, Documentation and Implementation. Maintenance, and Enhancement of New /or Existing Applications, Systems and Data Communication.

Occupational Background COBOL, and QA :

• Prior IT/IS Experiences: Consulting, Hospital Financial System s and Health Care Claims Billing, Banking, Engineering and General Accounting, Operations.
• Prior Technical Experience:
• 3 Years as an Analyst of HIS Health Care System s , Hospital Software.
• Primary programming responsibilities included the maintenance and
• Enhancement of Online Systems Screens and Electronic Claims Billing Systems.
• 5 Years as an Analyst of HIS at a 350 Bed Non-Profit Suburb Hospital.
• I was an active participant in the implementation of an Electronic Media Claims
• Processing System, to automate the entries and editing of claims data. Also to
• Expedite Claims Payment Processing. Maintenance Programming, Design and
• upgrade of online screens for processing of Inpatient Part A /or Outpatient Part B
• Insurance claims. Provided maintenance, and enhancement support for Hospital
• Patient Financial System and Health Care Electronic Claims Billing Systems.
• 2 Years of Bank Programming.
• 6 Years of MIS Engineering Programming and Technical Services.
• General Ledger Accounting, Consolidated Financial Report,
• Engineering Cost Control Reports Job, Project and Tasks .
• 4 Years of Computer Operations, Lead Computer Operator.

Quality Assurance Analyst Experience:

• Write up System Test Packets, to include Test Scenarios for Online / Batch
• Processing, Create Test Data, File transfer and validation Test case identification
• Test Run s , Validation of all Output Files / Reports Test defect tracking log, and
• Resolve Defects. Test completion tracker. Meetings, planning, and documentation,
• and requirements walkthroughs, and Release meetings.
• Provided technical mentoring /or assistance to Jr. Programmers, and QA Team.
• In, support of ongoing assignments.

Requirement / Functional Analyst Experience:

• Weekly staff meetings reporting on projects progress/status review and sign off.
• Liaison representative to interface with the End Users and Vendors.
• Meetings/Communication with software vendors for Systems or application programs,
• Conversion needs, research and evaluate manual System s being affected.
• Report findings also suggestions to management and software vendors on procedures
• for proper functionality for testing and validation of input /or output data prior to conversion.
• Modification of file formats, create test data, analysis of test transmitted data, and
• Communicating with the vendor. Assist in creating, and maintaining reports to meet the
• needs of the end users.
• E Interface with the Data Base Administrator to research and develop the structure of the
• Database, datasets, subsets, keys, and access rights.
• F Technical liaison for software customization activities between various software vendors and end
• users. Duties included requirement analysis, workflow design for manual procedures, software
• design specification, System s testing, and implementation support.

Confidential

Knowledge:

HARDWARE:

IBM OS/390 MVS, ESA and XA Operating System s in a LAN /or Client Server

Environment.

SOFTWARE:

• COBOL, COBOL II, TSO, ISPF, CICS, SDSF, JCL, VSAM, DASD, CATALOGS, ABEND
• AID, IEB'S, IEH'S, PROC'S, FILEAID, PANVALET, IMS DBDC DL/I, EDITOR, ADS, SOLIS,
• IBAX Health Care System s , PCS/ADS , HL7, PEGASYS, ROSCOE and OS UTILITIES.

HARDWARE:

• Unisys A-Series, Unisys 2200 in a LAN /or Client Server Environment.
• SOFTWARE:
• COBOL 74 / 85, DMS II, DMINQUIRY, CANDE, WFL, SOG, DUMPALL, TADS,
• LOGANALYZER, MARC, ADDS, COMS, ERGO, SDF, NDL, CLEARPATH/NX MCP,
• DARGAL, EZSPEC, URSA an report generator utilizing DMSII. ECL, FURPUR.

TOOLS:

SCREEN MAGIC Screen Design , VISIO Flowcharting and various other utilities. Most office equipment, MS: WINDOWS XP, and 7 MS 2000 OFFICE SUITE, WORD, EXCEL, in a LAN and

Client Server Environment.

SKILLS:

• General Ledger Accounting: JE, AR, AP, Trial Balances, Adjusted Trial Balances,
• General Ledger Summary, Hospital Health Care Financial System s , Health Care Electronic Claims Billing. Banking and Automated Engineering Cost Reporting Job Control, Project Control, and Task Control. System/Project Full Development Life Cycle SDLC/FDLC , Conversion Methodology, Data Communication. COBOL, Advance COBOL, Unit or System s Testing and Debugging, Data Format Designs of Flat Files and DB Sets, Forms Design, Online Screens Design, Maintenance and Enhancement of System s or Applications. Pre-production QA and Testing, Write up Unit/Module or System s Documentation, Flowcharts, and Operational Procedures.

Confidential

• Conversion Methodologies, Functional / Programmer and System Analyst. Flat File Accessing Methods Random, Sequential, Indexed and Keyed Indexed . Read, Validate, and Convert HEXADECIMAL, BINARY, EBCDIC, DECIMAL and ASCII. Data Communication. Write /or review specifications for new and existing applications or systems, workflow documentation for System application programs, Input /or output files and output reports.
• Validate output files and output reports. Create System Test Packets,
• Test Scenarios for Online and Offline Processing, Create Test Data and validate.
• Review Test Defects and Resolve defects.